02891nam 22006011 450 991046493800332120200520144314.00-7391-8013-4(CKB)3710000000020574(EBL)1441825(SSID)ssj0001001196(PQKBManifestationID)12372331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001196(PQKBWorkID)10962412(PQKB)10114012(MiAaPQ)EBC1441825(Au-PeEL)EBL1441825(CaPaEBR)ebr10774574(OCoLC)860711841(EXLCZ)99371000000002057420130613h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntelligent and honest radicals the Chicago Federation of Labor and the politics of progression /Mitchell Newton-MatzaLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2013]©20131 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-6802-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The ghosts of upheaval : Chicago law and labor in the nineteenth century -- Whoopla ho! : the creation of the Chicago Federation of Labor and into the twentieth century -- Everybody is watching us now : the CFL and the dream of a Labor Party -- The crack of the whip : the battle against the labor injunction -- The Chicago controversy : the Landis Award -- A brisk war over a new constitution for Illinois -- Conclusion : out of the twenties and into the New Deal.Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movement's relationship to Illinois legal and political system. Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. He brings to light a number of victories and achievements for the labor movement in this period that are often over looked. Labor movementIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryLabor unionsPolitical activityIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryProgressivism (United States politics)History20th centuryChicago (Ill.)Politics and governmentTo 1950IllinoisPolitics and government1865-1950Electronic books.Labor movementHistoryLabor unionsPolitical activityHistoryProgressivism (United States politics)History322/.20977311Newton-Matza Mitchell1962-999285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464938003321Intelligent and honest radicals2292846UNINA